This is the privacy notice for the Prep a Constable app, the same text the app shows. This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

Prep a Constable is a revision app for people preparing for United Kingdom police entry examinations. This notice explains what personal information we collect, why, what we do with it, and the rights you have over it. We collect the minimum needed to run the app.

Who is responsible for your information

The data controller is Arim Capital Ltd, company number 17574560, registered in England and Wales. You can contact us about anything in this notice, including any request about your personal information, at support@prepaconstable.co.uk or at our registered office, 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom. Our website is https://prepaconstable.co.uk.

What we collect, why, and our lawful basis

Your email address. Collected only if you choose to create an account. You can sign in with Apple, with Google, or with a one-time sign-in link. We use the address to identify your account so your progress can sync between your devices. Lawful basis: performance of a contract — it is necessary to provide the account service you asked for. There is no password, so we never hold one.

If you choose Sign in with Apple, Apple shares your email address with us. Where you use Hide My Email, Apple shares a private relay address instead of your personal inbox (the address ends in privaterelay.appleid.com) and forwards our messages to you. If you choose Google, Google shares your email address with us. If you choose the email link, we collect the address you type and use it to send that one-time sign-in link. We never receive an Apple or Google password.

Your first name, surname and rank, if you choose to enter them. Used only to address you in the app. These are optional and you can change or clear them at any time in Profile. Lawful basis: performance of a contract.

Your study data: which questions you have answered and whether you got them right, questions you have flagged, mock attempt history, lessons marked as read, your spaced-repetition schedule, your daily streak, your chosen Assessment Point and dates, and any real assessment results you record. This is what the app is for — it produces your progress, your weak spots and your revision schedule. Lawful basis: performance of a contract.

Speech, only while a Verbal Drill is recording. See the separate section below, because what happens to it depends on your device. Lawful basis: your consent, which you give by tapping the microphone button and granting the permission your device asks for. You can withdraw it at any time by not using the microphone, by using the "Type it instead" option, or by turning the permission off in your device settings.

Whether the app is working. We look at how people do overall — average accuracy, whether mock scores improve with practice, and which topics people find hardest — so we can tell whether the app actually helps and fix the parts that do not. This uses the study data you have already given us; we collect nothing extra for it. We only ever produce combined figures across many people, never a report about you, and any figure covering fewer than 20 people is not produced at all. Lawful basis: our legitimate interests in knowing whether the app works and in improving it. You can object at any time by turning off "Help improve the app" in Profile, and your data is then excluded entirely.

We do not collect your location, your contacts, your photographs, your camera, your device advertising identifier, your browsing behaviour outside the app, or any operational policing information. The app contains no analytics, no advertising and no third-party tracking of any kind. We do not build profiles of you and no decision about you is made automatically.

We do not ask for or want special category information — anything revealing health, ethnicity, religion, political opinions, trade union membership, sex life, sexual orientation, genetic or biometric data. Please do not enter any real case information, intelligence, or personal information about any member of the public into this app.

The microphone and your speech

The microphone is used in one place only: Verbal Drills, and only while you are recording. It is never used at any other time and never in the background. Every drill can be completed by typing instead.

Where your device can transcribe speech offline, the audio is turned into text on the device and never leaves it. Where your device cannot, the audio is sent to Apple or Google — whichever provides your device's speech service — to be turned into text, and is handled under their own privacy terms. The app tells you which of the two applies to you on the screen before the microphone opens.

Either way we never receive, record, store or upload the audio. The text is held only in the app's memory while the drill is on screen, is used only to mark the drill, is not saved to your device and is not sent to us. Your drill score is not stored either.

Who else receives your information

Supabase, our database and authentication provider, stores your account and study data on our behalf. They act as our processor, which means they may only use it to provide that service to us and on our instructions.

Apple, if you sign in with Apple. Apple shares your email address, or a private relay address where Hide My Email applies, as described above. Google, if you sign in with Google. Google shares your email address. Neither shares your password with us. They handle that sign-in under their own privacy terms.

Apple or Google, if your device sends speech for transcription as described above, and when you buy the app. They act under their own privacy terms for those purposes.

We may disclose information if we are legally required to. Beyond that, nobody else receives your personal information. We do not sell it, share it for anyone else's marketing, or transfer it to advertisers. Ever.

Where your information is held

Our database is hosted in Ireland, inside the European Economic Area. Transfers from the United Kingdom to the European Economic Area are covered by the United Kingdom's adequacy regulations, so no additional transfer safeguard is required for them.

Some of our providers are based outside the United Kingdom and may access information from there in order to support the service. Where that happens we rely on the transfer safeguards in our agreements with them, such as the International Data Transfer Agreement or the United Kingdom Addendum to the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. You can ask us for details.

How long we keep it

Your account and study data are kept until you delete your account. When you delete it, the account and all associated data are removed immediately from our database and are not recoverable.

If you have not signed in for 24 months we will email you, and if there is still no activity 30 days later we will delete the account and its data.

Speech is not retained at all. Data held only on your device is removed when you delete the app, and Reset progress clears it immediately.

Your rights

Under the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation you have the right to be informed about how your information is used, which is what this notice is for; to ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you; to have inaccurate information corrected; to have your information erased; to restrict how we use it; to object to our using it; and to receive it in a portable, machine-readable form. Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time, and withdrawing it does not affect anything done before you did.

You can exercise most of these immediately in the app. Profile lets you see and change everything we hold about you, and Profile then Delete account erases it. For anything else, email us at support@prepaconstable.co.uk. We will respond within one month. We may extend that by up to two further months for complex requests, and we will tell you within the first month if we need to. We do not charge for this.

If you are unhappy

You have the right to complain to us about how we have used your personal information. Email support@prepaconstable.co.uk with the word Complaint in the subject line and tell us what has gone wrong. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days of receiving it, look into it, keep you informed of progress, and tell you the outcome.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the United Kingdom's data protection regulator, at any time. Their helpline is 0303 123 1113 and their website is ico.org.uk. You do not have to come to us first, and complaining to either of us does not affect any other legal remedy.

Marketing

We do not send marketing. The only emails we send are the one-time sign-in link, when you ask for one, and the inactivity notice described above. The app sends no push notifications.

Cookies and tracking

The app uses no cookies, no advertising identifiers and no tracking technologies. It stores your progress on your own device so the app works offline, and stores your sign-in session so you are not asked to sign in every time. Both are necessary to provide the service you have asked for.

Children

This app is intended for adults preparing for police recruitment and is not directed at children. Applicants to United Kingdom police forces must be at least 18 at appointment. We do not knowingly collect information from children, we ask for no more information from any user than the app needs, and none of the features that pose particular risks to children — location, profiling, personalised advertising, public profiles and contact between users — exist in this app at all. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

Information is encrypted in transit. Our database enforces row-level security so that each account can only ever read and write its own data. There is no password on the account: email sign-in is a one-time link, and Apple and Google sign-in are handled by those providers. The key that ships inside the app is a public, restricted key and grants no access to anyone else's information.

Changes to this notice

If we change how we use your information we will update this notice and the date at the top, and where the change is significant we will tell you in the app.